{"id":7624,"date":"2007-04-28T08:00:32","date_gmt":"2007-04-28T12:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=7624"},"modified":"2007-04-28T08:00:32","modified_gmt":"2007-04-28T12:00:32","slug":"what-1st-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=7624","title":{"rendered":"WHAT 1ST AMENDMENT?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A student (of Asian descent) was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/news\/metro\/360827,CST-NWS-essay27.article\">arrested<\/a> because the school judged his creative writing too &#8220;violent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Police Thursday released portions of an essay used to charge a Cary-Grove High School student with disorderly conduct, leaving several experts puzzled at an arrest based on such schoolwork.<\/p>\n<p>Asked to write about whatever he wanted in a creative writing class, would-be Marine and honors student Lee, 18, described a violent dream in which he shot people and then &#8220;had sex with the dead bodies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But then he immediately dismissed the idea as a mere joke, writing, &#8220;not really, but it would be funny if I did.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure this has nothing to do with VT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A student (of Asian descent) was arrested because the school judged his creative writing too &#8220;violent.&#8221; Police Thursday released portions of an essay used to charge a Cary-Grove High School student with disorderly conduct, leaving several experts puzzled at an arrest based on such schoolwork. Asked to write about whatever he wanted in a creative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7624"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}